For instance, the sojourn to New York City and Korim's fascination with the rise of the Internet parallel Krasznahorkai's life trajectory as a young writer. The novel is semi-autobiographical at times and reveals much of Krasznahorkai's personal outlook on life. In a fever, Korim ventures to New York City in an effort to preserve the manuscripts and post their contents on the Internet. Marginalized by his peers and brutalized by thugs on a fateful train ride, his faith in the world is eventually restored by a collection of antique manuscripts he discovers in his small Hungarian town's local archive. In the novel, the young Korim begins on the verge of suicide. While most of his novels are set in a single setting, War & War is a story about a man named Korim's journey across Hungary and eventual voyage to New York City and ensuing hardships. War & War is a novel of extraordinary scope for Krasznahorkai. Playing on common themes in Hungarian literature, Krasznahorkai is a living testament to the enduring momentum of the Hungarian novelistic tradition. In most of his novels, his characters are caught between rapidly deteriorating social conditions and the unlikely promise of redemption by mystical means. Krasznahorkai's work should be of special interest to students of the Hungarian novel for their experimental style and direct lineage to other philosophical novelists in the Hungarian canon such as Krúdy and Szerb (for more on these two authors, see "Classic Hungarian Novels" tab in this guide). Having begun his writing career in the 1980s during the erosion of Hungarian communism, Krasznahorkai's work is primarily preoccupied with themes of the dissolution of meaning, dystopia, and apocalypse. For instance, some of his works are written in a single lengthy sentence. He does not shy away from experimentation, placing him firmly in the camp of a writer's writer. His works are notoriously demanding and difficult, and they are considered emblematic of postmodernist literature. László Krasznahorkai is Hungary's most famous living writer.
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